We'll Never Say Fail

We're fighting for a noble cause

Author: Lizzie DeArmond
Tune: [We're fighting for a noble cause]
Published in 3 hymnals

Audio files: MIDI

Representative Text

1 We’re fighting for a noble cause,
A happy, loyal band,
For ev’rything that’s good and right
We’ll bravely take a stand;
Tho’ mighty prove the host of sin,
We surely will prevail;
The army of the Sunday School
Must never say fail.

Chorus:
We’ll never say fail,
No, never say fail;
We’re marching on to victory,
Thro’ Christ we shall prevail;
We’ll never say fail,
No, never say fail;
The army of the Sunday School
Must never say fail.

2 We’re marching on the winning side,
A joyful company,
Wherever Christ our Captain leads,
His soldiers true must be;
Come join the ranks he cannot spare
A single volunteer,
For ev’ry nation, tribe, and tongue,
His gospel must hear. [Chorus]

3 We’re fighting for a noble cause,
The roll-call is above;
Each one must answer for himself
Unto the Lord we love.
When we have marched to higher ground
And entered heaven’s vale,
With happy hearts we’ll tell the King
We never sail fail. [Chorus]


Source: Sunday School Voices, No.2 #162

Author: Lizzie DeArmond

Lizzie De Armond was a prolific writer of children's hymns, recitations and exercises. When she was twelve years old her first poem was published in the Germantown, Pa. Telegraph, however, it was not until she was a widow with eight children to support that she started writing in earnest. She wrote articles, librettos, nature stories and other works, as well as hymns. Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916) Go to person page >

Text Information

First Line: We're fighting for a noble cause
Title: We'll Never Say Fail
Author: Lizzie DeArmond
Refrain First Line: We'll never say fail, no, never
Copyright: Public Domain

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